Category: Vision Therapy

Light Therapy: Expanding one’s boundaries between seeing and non-seeing

How open is your window to the world? Are the shades helping you keep a modest, controlled vantage, so as to avoid overload? Are the curtains drawn back, revealing a bright, colorful universe, ready for your engagement? This brief article,

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Visual-Motor Development … the Precursor to Classroom Success!

The purpose of vision is TO GUIDE MOVEMENT!     But did you know that most infants “look” with their mouths… and then “look” with their hands before they trust their eyes??   This brief article, published in Natural Awakenings,

Behavioral Optometry? What’s that about?

Join Radio Personality Kacey Morabito Grean and Dr. Slotnick in an introductory discussion on Behavioral Optometry. They explore: Vision and learning Academic performance Signs of vision problems Eyesight vs Vision … and what can be done to help!   Aired on

Vision Therapy Enhances Quality of Life in Patients with Myopia!

Vision Therapy Enhances Quality of Life in Patients with Myopia!   Published in Natural Awakenings Magazine in February 2017, Dr. Slotnick shares the life-changing impact of a HOLISTIC APPROACH to vision care!   When Carmen Marrero and her 10-year-old daughter walked into

August is National Children’s Vision and Learning Month! En”Vision” Your World!

En “Vision” Your World! In honor of National Children’s Vision and Learning Month, Dr. Slotnick engaged in a conversation with TV host Cicely G on her talk show, Give and Take: The Positives in Life. Please help us raise awareness on the Role

Dr. Slotnick Radio Interview with Paul Morris

Dr. Slotnick has been invited as a guest on a radio talk show! Join the conversation! This Tuesday, Feb 23, from 4:00 to 4:30 pm! Listen Live! – Call with Questions: (347) 215-9456 – Listen on-demand Blog Talk Radio/ Getting

Tactile-Visual Integration and Stereopsis

Patients who are binocularly impaired have difficulty combining the two sets of visual data, from the left eye-channel and from the right eye-channel, into a single visual perception. Some of these patients have been diagnosed with strabismus, or perhaps amblyopia.  They may have

No Brain, No Gain… part 2!

Seeing… Beyond the eyes! How can a child be helped if the EYES are not the source of the vision problem? In No Brain, No Gain! we talked about how vision takes place in the BRAIN.  But what can be done

Factors Affecting Success in Strabismus Therapy

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  The following question came from a mom whose daughter is being treated for congenital strabismus (an eye turn since birth). Mom has been reading Sue Barry’s book, Fixing My Gaze, and presented the following, excellent question: If we are

No Brain, No Gain! …Going beyond the EYE

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Most folks have trouble separating the eye and sight. But if you think about it, sight really does not happen in the eye… it takes place in the BRAIN. On a rudimentary level: We SEE a mixture of borders, shades and